Antonio Conte has stated it was "very strange" that Tottenham's North London Derby clash against Arsenal was postponed earlier in the year as their opponents "didn't have one player with Covid". Initially due to take place at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in January, the Premier League accepted the Gunners' request to call off the match as they claimed they had "many players currently unavailable across our squad as a result of Covid, injuries and players away with their countries at AFCON".
It was a decision that did not go down well at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, especially after Tottenham had tried to rearrange their league clash against Leicester City in December in order to find a new date to play Rennes in the Europa Conference League following a Covid-19 outbreak at the club. Asked about the decision to postpone the original derby clash, Conte brought up the fact that Spurs' clash against Rennes was put down as a 3-0 defeat because the Premier League didn't want to move a game.
"To speak now about what happened in the past is not useful," explained the Italian. "For sure, it was very strange that our game was postponed for Covid and Arsenal didn't have one player with Covid.
